a rolling stone waiting to be set in motion

there are paths we travel as children in the faith, but real faith doesn't come until you reach the end of the path and find nothing - St. John of the Cross*

When a person looks around and finds no evidence for God, and yet follows anyway, she has reached the highest levels of faith.- C.S. Lewis *

6.2.1 We are not always certain that God is with us.
At times God calls us
to live in this world
without experiencing the divine presence,
often discerning God's nearness
only as we look back.
- Living Faith, Presbyterian church of Canada

"Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?"- Leo Tolstoy

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."- Martin luther King Jr.

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt"- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Fanaticism is...overcompensation for doubt."- Robertson Davies

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves."- Rainer Maria Rilke

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"The believer is happy; the doubter is wise."- Hungarian proverb





*Stolen from the muse for this post: rlp